SAN DIEGO - The Division II Conference Commissions Association (D2 CCA) has announced its 2025 All-Region selections for softball. From Cal State East Bay, Marissa Quintero and Ashlee Toy were named D2 CCA All-West Region First Team selections, and Annelise Garcia was named to the Second Team. Quintero also received D2 CCA West Region Pitcher of the Year honors. These honors for the Pioneers are upon an outstanding season for the program, the first since 1992 with 40 wins.
Marissa Quintero, So., P – Whittier, Calif./Whittier HSD2 CCA West Region Pitcher of the Year
D2 CCA All-West Region First Team
Before her two most recent honors, notably D2 CCA West Region Pitcher of the Year, Quintero already was named NFCA All-West Region, 2025 CCAA Pitcher of the Year, was named All-CCAA First Team for the second straight season and received Cal State East Bay's Female Rising Pioneer Award. Quintero finished the season with a 1.23 earned run average (CCAA-lowest), 107 strikeouts and became the first Pioneer pitcher to reach 20 wins in a season since 2006. Three times in 2025 she was named FloCollege/CCAA Pitcher of the Week, including the final two weeks of the regular season. She pitched a no-hitter on March 14 at CSUSB. When Cal State East Bay hosted the NCAA Division II West Regionals, Quintero opened the regionals with a shutout to help the Pioneers advance and limited Concordia to one run in an elimination game. Quintero was an NFCA All-West Region Second Team selection in 2024.
D2 CCA All-West Region First Team
Toy was versatile playing regularly in the outfield and in the circle, starting every game this season at one position or the other. At the plate in the regular season, she had a .341 batting average with 21 RBIs, 13 doubles and a triple. As a pitcher, she had a no-hitter on March 20 at Cal Poly Humboldt on her way to being named FloSports/CCAA Pitcher of the Week. Her 1.82 regular season earned run average was second lowest in the CCAA, just behind her teammate heading into the postseason. She finished with 105 strikeouts contributing to the most strikeouts in a season by a Pioneer pitching staff. Toy was also an NFCA All-West Region selection, First Team All-CCAA selection and was named Cal State East Bay's Female Student-Athlete of the Year.
D2 CCA All-West Region Second Team
Garcia, a four-year regular starter for the Pioneers, was named to the D2 CCA All-West Region Second Team, which was her third career postseason honor from D2 CCA. In 2024, she was named to the First Team and as a sophomore in 2023 was named to the Second Team. Over her career, she has climbed the Pioneer record books in several offensive categories. She is second in program history for hits (227) and triples (20), third for runs scored (137), and stolen bases (56) and fourth in RBIs (113), tied for fourth in home runs (22) and doubles (45). Her .352 batting average was tied for eighth highest in the CCAA, Garcia also was named All-CCAA First Team for the third straight year and received the Female Career Pioneer award.
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